Irishman believed to be the Ho Hum Bandit
Adam Lynch, a 34-year-old Dubliner, was arrested by the FBI last week because they believed him to be the notorious Ho Hum Bandit.
Mr Lynch, who gave an address at Corte Madera in California, has been charged by a Federal jury on one count of bank robbery already.
This was after he was arrested in Denver, Colorado by officers investigating at least 24 similar bank raids in the region.
It has now emerged he is also wanted for questioning over a series of crimes at banks in Seattle as well.
The FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force wants to ask Mr Lynch about additional crimes in Washington State on top of robberies further south and in Wyoming.
The Ho Hum Bandit moniker was applied to the serial robber because he was considered to be particularly laidback and casual while committing his crimes.
Money was asked for without a disguise or aggression and usually it was done with a note asking for money and referring to a gun that remained unbrandished.
He was known for boldly returning to strike the same branches more than once and managed to steal from the same outlet twice in one month.
A bounty of $15,000 had be offered by banks for information leading to his arrest. The Ho Hum Bandit first struck in February 2010 and his most recent crime was believed to have occurred on March 16.
Mr Lynch was arrested in Denver this day last week at Fado’s Irish pub.
He was charged with a sample offence relating to a bank in Edgewater Colorado but the FBI expects further charges.
If he is convicted he faces a spell of 20 years behind bars.
He was known in the Denver area but gave an address close to San Francisco where he was married. He is understood to have run a small business and had moved to America in the early 1990s.
